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NMPAN Home
The Niche Meat Processor Assistance Network (NMPAN) is a national network of people and organizations assisting niche meat processors and the livestock producers and niche meat buyers who depend on them. NMPAN began in the fall of 2007 as a way to connect people around the country trying to fill the processing gap for niche meats. Small and mid-sized plants—when available at all—can lack capacity, equipment, appropriate inspection status, and the human and financial capital needed to upgrade or expand. Communities, businesses and other groups around the country are working on the problem, but guidance and resources are often hard to find. NMPAN will help connect people on two levels:- Connect assistance providers working with niche processors to each other to share resources and ideas, and to work together on issues of national importance.
- Connect processors, producers, buyers and other interested parties to the assistance providers in their state or surrounding states to improve strategic outreach and action locally and regionally.
As this is a national network, NMPAN will function primarily over the net (interactive online maps to find out what is going on in your area and an online resource database) and over the phone (teleconferences).
| While we are just beginning to set things up, please fill out our questionnaire to help us find out what is going on in your area, and so that we can keep you posted on what's happening with NMPAN. |
For more information, contact:
Arion Thiboumery
Lauren Gwin
Coordinated in part by:
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu
